Installing a OS Tiger on Non-Firewire Mac, without additional software

[betaboy]

Hello, in my process of looking for a way to install OS Tiger from an ipod, I found this very handy site that explains how to make the OS Tiger installer continue with the install eventhought it requires a firewire port to be on the mac machine.

Here is the link: just incase the link does not appear, here it is
http://jonsharp.net/archives/2005/05...ger-on-lombard



Here is some quoted text from the admin of the site.

"First, I created a CD/DVD master image from the Tiger Install DVD using Disk Utility. Then, I mounted the image. Then I found the OSInstall.dist file in /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg/Contents on the image. Near the top of the file is a line that specifies a list of “badMachines”, or some such. In that list is “PowerBook1,1?, the model code for the PowerBook G3 Lombard. I simply modified that entry to read “PowerBook3,1?. I then unmounted the image and burned it to DVD-R. My Lombard booted right up the installation DVD as it had before, but this time I received no error messages regarding unsupported hardware."

I just thought this might be helpful to those who have unsupported Macs.

I did not come up with this idea, if you have an unsupported mac, then I recommend navigating to this webpage using the link, also read all the comments that were posted for this info.